Pause Between Acts
By: Mavis Cheek
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A portrayal of a divorcee's choice to live alone in happy seclusion which verges on the unreal when…
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1. The Paris Wife
By: Paula McLain
3.82
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love … read more
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"They love me like a pack of wolves. Ernest"-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
"You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through."-Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
2. The Marriage Lie
By: Kimberly Belle
3.94
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Even the perfect marriage has its dark side… Iris and Will's marriage is as close to perfect as it … read more
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- fiction
"I could very well be pregnant already. “Most people give wool or copper for their seventh anniversary. You gave me sperm."-Kimberly Belle, The Marriage Lie
3. Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
By: Patricia Cornwell
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of st… read more
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- fiction
4. Crampton Hodnet
By: Barbara Pym
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Here, Barbara Mary Crampton Pym sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing on the unsuitable… read more
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5. Yesterday's Houses
By: Mavis Cheek , cheek-mavis
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Janice Gentle Gets Sexyand Mrs Fytton's Country Lifecomes a tragicom… read more
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- fiction
6. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- fiction
7. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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8. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more
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9. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)
By: S.J. Parris
3.55
Format: 288 pages,
Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more
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10. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
11. Silver Bay
By: Jojo Moyes
3.79
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, in an earlier work available in t… read more
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- fiction
"We had not mentioned love, but my every nerve ending throbbed with it, and I carried it in a cloud around me, like sea mist."-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay
"Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world."-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay
"...all I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready."-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay
12. Anything Is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.20
Format: None pages,
Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more
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13. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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14. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
By: Naomi Alderman
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more
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- fiction
15. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)
By: Helene Tursten
3.76
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation prob… read more
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"Maud placed two small cartons of rollmops in the basket of her wheeled walker, followed by a larger pack of herring salad. They were soon joined by a Stilton cheese in a blue porcelain pot, a mature …"-Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)
16. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- fiction
"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
17. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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- fiction
18. All My Mothers
By: Joanna Glen
4.44
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more
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"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers
19. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.00
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more
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- fiction
"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
20. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
By: Michael Lewis
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more
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21. Miss Benson's Beetle
By: Rachel Joyce
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more
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"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle
22. The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club
By: Faith Hogan
4.17
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again. 'Up… read more
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- fiction
23. Just Like You
By: Nick Hornby
3.37
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the… read more
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- fiction
"Als je hem voor de Nacht Zonder Jazz zou hebben gevraagd waar hij gelukkig van werd, dan zou hij niet goed hebben begrepen hoe relevant die vraag was. Nu wist hij het antwoord: naar bed gaan met Lucy…"-Nick Hornby, Just Like You
24. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
By: Jenny Hollander
3.28
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine ye… read more
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- fiction
25. Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel
By: Ruth Hogan
3.93
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes - a nove… read more
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- fiction
26. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)
By: Juno Dawson
3.84
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more
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- fiction
27. Three Little Truths
By: Eithne Shortall
3.58
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________'Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageou… read more
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- fiction
28. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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- fiction
"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
29. The Waitress
By: Emily Shiner
3.45
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
Secrets can be kept. If you’re willing to pay the price. Anne Marie’s life isn’t easy. She’s a s… read more
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30. Pause Between Acts
By: Mavis Cheek
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A portrayal of a divorcee's choice to live alone in happy seclusion which verges on the unreal when… read more
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31. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
